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Moving Walls 19
SLIDESHOW
This online exhibit explores the experiences of people who face discrimination; highlights the personal consequences of government neglect or repression; and reflects efforts to carry out or advocate for justice.

Black Male Achievement: It's More Than Just Good Grades
Stephanie Ramirez-Burnett
December 20, 2011
BLOG
The obstacles faced by black kids in America go far beyond studying hard and getting straight A's. Grantees of the Open Society Campaign for Black Male Achievement are working hard to address the root causes of inequality.

Why Are World Leaders Turning Their Backs on Africa?
Stephen Lewis
January 17, 2012
BLOG
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has saved and prolonged millions of lives. Yet at this precise moment when the global community should be doing all it can to support the Fund, it is under the most serious assault it has endured in its ten-year history.

Mapping Digital Media: United States
November 2011
This report calls for policies in the United States to promote greater media diversity and protect and promote the public�s voice through the enforcement of open internet rules, the allocation of spectrum to unlicensed and other innovative uses, an expansion of the universal service fund to broadband, and the broadening of entities that can receive it.

Call for Applications: 2012 Baltimore Community Fellows
Deadline: March 12, 2012
OSI-Baltimore is pleased to announce a call for 2012 Baltimore Community Fellows. In addition to the ten slots that are available for the Baltimore Community Fellowships, we are pleased to announce two additional fellowships. These new fellowships, sponsored by the Open Society Foundations� Campaign for Black Male Achievement, will support individuals working with black men and boys in the areas of education, family, and work.

Call for Applications: Human Rights and Drug Policy Summer Course
Deadline: February 15, 2012
Applications are invited from high-achieving MA and PhD students, junior faculty, research staff in universities and other institutions and professionals.

Christopher Stone to Lead Open Society Foundations in 2012
December 7, 2011
The Open Society Foundations today announced the appointment of Christopher Stone as its next president, effective July 2012.

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Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative
OSI-New York
November 17, 2011
AUDIO
This Open Society Foundations event marks the launch of Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative, a collection of essays by journalist Lawrence Weschler.

The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
OSI-New York
November 7, 2011
AUDIO
A panel of experts discuss The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, by Open Society Fellow Andrew Feinstein.

Breaking the Barriers: Helping Black Males Achieve Academic Success
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
October 20, 2011
AUDIO
Ivory Toldson of Howard University and Raymond Winbush of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University talk about what educators, parents, and families can do to ensure that young black men succeed.

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Mapping Digital Media: Social Media and News
January 2012
With research showing that most internet users stumble across news online while looking for something else, news organizations can no more ignore social media than they can ignore the communities they seek to serve (and the markets which its advertisers seek to reach).

Gitmo: Then and Now
Larry Siems
January 10, 2012
BLOG
Stacks of formerly classified documents about a torture program may seem like cold and impersonal things, but what they contain couldn't be more intimate or harrowingly human.

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